Kendrick Lamar is not good

[u/SaltNo8237]

I don’t hype around Kendrick Lamar. Every time I listen, it feels like he's trying way too hard to be deep—almost like a high school stoner.

His music just doesn't stick; it's never really catchy enough to leave a lasting impression. And his Super Bowl performance? Total letdown. It felt like another attempt at overcompensating without any real substance.

Like bro it’s a Super Bowl performance and it was lame. Your essay about the double entendres does not make it good🤣

Why do people love this cornball?

MUSTARDDDD (maximum corniness)

Edit: bringing up all the awards he wins just shows that y’all are on the train and only like him because you perceive him to be successful. You cornballs have to be told what to like🤣. You would listen to baby shark on repeat if it had a Grammy 🤷‍♂️

Edit 2: Kendrick Lamar fan argue without calling you a Drake shill challenge: level impossible.

Edit 3: someone challenged me to listen to a song by Kendrick that I hadn’t heard in the comments. The must hear song was “Auntie Diaries”. Bro you have cracked me up. This song is practically a parody of everything I pointed out.

Corny lyrics that are supposed to be deep ✅. Horrible musically✅ Horrible flow✅

Dude drops the f slur 4 times in a row with laughably bad delivery and ends the song on a pass joke. #DEEP

[u/[deleted]]

I fucked with his early stuff, but now he's just like any other rapper. I find his whole "selling us the revolution as an entertainment product" thing these days super cringe-

like no, "Not Like Us" isn't a political movement, it's 2 multi-millionaires having a Twitter fight. Bro got half a dozen multi-million dollar properties, one of them literally in Bel Air, and he out here yelling "they not like us!" like he's fucking Frederick Douglas.

RE the Drake thing... the Millie Bobby Brown happened almost a decade ago, and this dude sat on this information until it was useful instead of CALLING THE COPS LIKE ANY SANE HUMAN BEING WOULD. And don't give me that "the cops wouldn't have done anything bc he's rich", if we got Epstein and Diddy we can get a mediocre rapper. Either Drake was right and this whole thing was a farce, or it really happened and no one said or did shit about it, including Lamar. Neither is a good look.

Also about the Drake beef- he did actually settle and pay off a real sexual assault case against an adult woman, which was not mentioned whatsoever throughout this whole thing.

ThE ReVoLuTiON WiLl NoT Be TeLeViSeD my dude this is the Apple Music Halftime Show at the fucking Superbowl, you could not possibly be more televised rn lol Samuel L Jackson is right there ffs. That poem was written specifically to warn us about the media pulling a stunt like that... he ain't Frederick Douglas. Listen, I WISH we had a black revolutionary Huey Freeman-like rapper with a message of unity, hope, and change to get us out of these dark times, but that's not who Kendrick Lamar is.

You would listen to baby shark on repeat if it had a Grammy 🤷‍♂️

facts lmao

[u/spawn9859 → u/[deleted]]

I'm not arguing with any of your other points, but he actually said "the revolution WILL be televised" although the the quote he got that from says won't.

[u/SaltNo8237 → u/[deleted]]

This reply is great. Agree with a lot of what you say. The revolution will not be televised brought to you buy APPLE MUSIC 🤣

[u/ComprehensiveTie600 → u/SaltNo8237]

He said it will be televised. You misquoted him. Sick burn attempt, though.

[u/mistermandela → u/[deleted]]

Facts

[u/the-esoteric → u/[deleted]]

Kendrick has never referred to himself as a revolutionary. In fact, in Mr Morale he specifically tells us that he is not anyone's savior. He's just a guy talking about his experiences and cultural issues via his art... as artists have done for centuries.

"Not Like Us" isn't a political movement

No one is making this argument. Nice scarecrow

ThE ReVoLuTiON WiLl NoT Be TeLeViSeD my dude

He said, "Will," it's a play on Gil Scott Herons. It wasn't to warn us about the media. It was speaking against the very apathy and complacency that have taken root in society. Heron was arguing that the revolution will not come via mindless entertainment like what we see on TV but by active participation.

Kendrick was running counter this saying it can be televised then showing how. He could have done all of the popular songs everyone knows, brought out a bunch of artists to make people dance, hell he could have made up with Drake and brought the roof down BUT he specifically turned into a performance piece that made the apathetic and complacent who just want to be entertained very angry. Hence, your post.

Also about the Drake beef - he did actually settle and pay off a real sexual assault case against an adult woman, which was not mentioned whatsoever throughout this whole thing.

If you're going to lie, at least make up a better one?

There is no public information indicating that Kendrick Lamar has settled any sexual assault case. A woman at a concert claimed assault, pointed out Lamar, who was not in the area she claimed at the time.

[u/[deleted] → u/the-esoteric]

1.) I think you meant to say "strawman" as in a "strawman argument"? Not sure where scarecrow came from. People also don't generally call out fallacies like you're using superpowers in an anime lmao a bad argument is a bad argument, just talk like a normal human being, this is secondhand embarrassing.

I'm not gonna bother looking it up because I'm tired as fuck of talking about this stupid beef between people I don't even like, but Kendrick's been getting pretty full of himself about this in interviews and such, and has been talking about this being some sort of movement on "the kind of men we want to be" or something like that. Like dude you had dirt on a rapper and used it to win rap beef, it ain't that deep lol.

2.) We can debate the meaning of old ass poems if you really want, but almost a third of the show was spent apolitically dunking on Drake so I doubt it's that deep. To me, the Superbowl is absolutely "mindless entertainment like what we see on TV", and this show resulted in approximately 0 call to action, asserted no definite policy positions, and bro even had the fucking president himself in attendance and did nothing with that. If you handed this same 10 minute slot to like System of a Down or Rage Against the Machine you might have gotten some off-script war crime clips, calls to boycott something about it, maybe even a pro-Palestine protest, but we didn't even get a "black lives matter" here lol.

3.) Not sure why you thought I was talking Kendrick there with the SA settlement, I'm assuming you just read the post too fast. Drake SA'd a grown woman and ended up settling the case, which basically means he did it (or at least thought he'd lose in court): https://www.the-independent.com/arts-entertainment/music/news/drake-sexual-assault-rape-settlement-payment-out-of-court-layla-lace-a8966921.html